Prayer Quotes by Martin Luther

Pray, and let God worry.

— Martin Luther

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

— Martin Luther

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

— Martin Luther

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

— Martin Luther

To pray well is the better half of study.

— Martin Luther

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

— Martin Luther

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

— Martin Luther

To pray diligently is more than half the task.

— Martin Luther

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

— Martin Luther

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

— Martin Luther

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that helps and never fails.

— Martin Luther

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

— Martin Luther

The organ in the worship service is a sign of Baal.

— Martin Luther

“God wants to give us more than we ask for, not just fulfill our weak prayers. Joseph”

— Martin Luther

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

— Martin Luther

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

— Martin Luther

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

— Martin Luther

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them…

— Martin Luther

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek…

— Martin Luther

The worship of God…should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples,…

— Martin Luther

“The most important requirement of prayer is firmly holding on to God and believing that he is merciful and compassionate—someone who wants…

— Martin Luther

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

— Martin Luther

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same…

— Martin Luther

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through…

— Martin Luther

God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only…

— Martin Luther

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we…

— Martin Luther

If I did not see that the Lord kept watch over the ship, I should long since have abandoned the helm. But…

— Martin Luther

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle,…

— Martin Luther

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we…

— Martin Luther

“PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern…

— Martin Luther

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your…

— Martin Luther

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever…

— Martin Luther

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by…

— Martin Luther

“At these words I was utterly stupefied and terror-stricken. I thought to myself, “With what tongue shall I address such majesty, seeing…

— Martin Luther

Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his…

— Martin Luther

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and…

— Martin Luther

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard…

— Martin Luther

“All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if…

— Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

— Martin Luther

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

— Martin Luther